Travel Blogs from Yining

Well, hard to believe that we are now out of China - what a change. Where did all the people go to. Overall I really enjoyed China and could quite easily live in the country to be honest. Can thoroughly recommend it as a place to ...

... Finally in frustration I headed up the road in the direction indicated by the lonely planet. About a km away I spotted an old ****** sleeper bus with Almaty in the window. I asked the drink seller nearby where I could buy tickets and he pointed to a ramshackle shed next to the bus and told me to come back at 3pm. The bus left the next morning at 6pm…OK. That was progress.

Back at the hotel we tried in vain to hook up the LAN cable.It simply pushed the ...

... As most of you know, Kaz. is the country I have been most apprehensive about visiting - having read much about it's people and the land. The countryside into Zharkent was just patchy cropping with cows and donkeys roaming the roads...and a few vehicles. We have been given much advice about the omnipresent traffic police, bribes, speed limits and current car insurances. So we drove to Zharkent VERY cautiously aiming to get our ...

... bailed straight away but I stayed on hoping for better but to no avail. Back to the self service tomorrow. Whilst waiting for all the approvals to come through, we took the truck down to a 'Garage' for a hoist so that I could take a well overdue look underneath. The back tank had developed a small leak from the breather, and there was a bit of movement in the back section of the exhaust. But no worries! All ...